January 9 – February 13, 1982
Jim Iserman's installation in the Reception Gallery, Patio Tempo, recollects popular American furniture and decorations, usually produced in the 1950's. Iserman's furniture and decorations, usually made of plastic and pre-fabricated materials, originate in a "low" art context which he places in an uneasy relationship to "high" art. By playing on our most mundane expectations of an actual reception room, Patio Tempo attempts to dissolve and/or point out the distinctions that we construct between fantasy and real life situations.